USC Recommended Film List

Something that might be of interest if you’re looking for a random rental…  here’s the recommended film list that USC sent out to incoming graduate film students last year.  No, I’ve not seen a number of these yet:

Narrative Films:

• 8 1/2
• 2001 – A Space Odyssey
• A Hard Day’s Night
• African Queen
• Alice in the Cities
• Alien
• All About Eve
• Amadeus
• American Friend, The
• American Graffiti
• Annie Hall
• Apartment, The
• Apocalypse Now
• Apu Trilogy, The
• Band of Outsiders
• Band Wagon, The
• Barton Fink
• Battle of Algiers
• Being John Malkovich
• Bicycle Thief, The
• Big Lebowski, The
• Black Orpheus
• Blade Runner
• Blow-Up
• Blue
• Blue Velvet
• Bob le Flambeur
• Bonnie and Clyde
• Boyz ‘n the Hood
• Breathless
• Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
• Carrie
• Casablanca
• Children of Paradise (Les Enfants du Paradis)
• Chinatown
• Cinema Paradiso
• Citizen Kane
• Clueless
• Coal Miner’s Daughter
• Contempt
• Conversation, The
• Cool Hand Luke
• Crimes And Misdemeanors
• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
• D.O.A. (1950)
• Deep End, The
• Dekalog
• Dersu Uzala
• Diner
• Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The
• Do The Right Thing
• Dog Day Afternoon
• Donnie Darko
• Double Indemnity
• Dr. Strangelove
• Eat, Drink, Man, Woman
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• Exorcist, The
• Fallen Idol, The
• Fight Club
• Fish Called Wanda, A
• Five Easy Pieces
• Force of Evil
• Godfather, The (I & II)
• Gone With the Wind
• Graduate, The
• Grand Illusion
• High and Low
• High Noon
• House of Sand and Fog
• It Happened One Night
• Jaws
• Jules and Jim
• King of Marvin Gardens, The
• Kramer Vs. Kramer
• La Jetée
• La Strada
• Lady Eve, The
• Last Tango in Paris
• L’Avventura
• Lawrence of Arabia
• Le Boucher
• Le Samouraï
• Letter from an Unknown Woman
• Like Water for Chocolate
• M*A*S*H
• Man for All Seasons, A
• Matrix, The
• Memento
• Midnight Cowboy
• Miller’s Crossing
• Morocco
• Mother and the Whore, The
• Mulholland Drive
• Nashville
• Network
• Night Moves
• Ninotchka
• Notorious
• On the Waterfront
• Once Upon a Time in the West
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
• Out of the Past
• Paths of Glory
• Patton
• Point Blank
• Producers, The
• Pulp Fiction
• Raging Bull
• Ran
• Rashomon
• Rear Window
• Red
• Red Balloon, The
• Repo Man
• Rules of the Game
• Safe
• Searchers, The
• Seven Samurai
• Seventh Seal, The
• Shanghai Express
• Shock Corridor
• Shoot the Piano Player
• Silence of the Lambs
• Stagecoach
• Star is Born, A (1937)
• Star Wars
• Stranger Than Paradise
• Sullivan’s Travels
• Sunset Boulevard
• Talk to Her
• Thelma and Louise
• Third Man, The
• Tin Drum, The
• Touch of Evil
• Traffic
• Trouble in Paradise
• Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The
• Unbearable Lightness of Being, The
• Underworld U.S.A.
• Unforgiven
• Verdict, The
• Vertigo
• White
• Wild Strawberries
• Wizard of Oz, The
• Woman in the Dunes
• Written on the Wind
• You Can Count on Me

Documentaries:

• Brother’s Keeper
• Capturing the Friedman’s
• Control Room
• Crumb
• Dogtown and Z Boys
• Don’t Look Back
• Fast, Cheap and Out of Control
• Gimme Shelter
• Grey Gardens
• Harlan Country, USA
• Hoop Dreams
• My Architect
• Poto and Cabengo
• Riding Giants
• Roger and Me
• Sans Soleil
• Sorrow and the Pity, The
• Spellbound
• Super Size Me
• The Celluloid Closet
• The Kid Stays in the Picture
• The Thin Blue Line
• The War Room
• Thelonious Monk: Straight No Chaser
• Triumph of the Will
• What the Bleep do we know?

Television:

• 24
• All in the Family
• Arrested Development
• Freaks and Geeks
• Gilmore Girls
• Good Times
• MASH
• Seinfeld
• Sex and the City
• Six Feet Under
• The Office
• The Shield
• The Sopranos
• The Wire
• The Wonder Years